A 360-degree customer journey is a set of ideas and methods meant to take you from vague promises of being “customer-centric” to a concrete process for measurably offering more value to customers. By better understanding individuals and groups of customers, you’ll find ways to make your products more useful and smooth out the buying process, building an engaged audience for your brand along the way.

Designing a mobile marketing strategy is both an art and science. You need to take many factors into account, listen to your hunches about your audience, draw on your experience, and put new tactics into place.

But how do you know if your strategy is working?

You won’t unless you measure it. Here are five steps you can take to measure the effectiveness of your mobile marketing strategy.

Digital transformation remains a hot topic in the C-suite. However, transformation efforts are meeting with mixed results. Over 60 percent of companies Lopez Research surveyed strongly agreeing with the statement "Our digital transformation efforts are moving slower than expected." Successful digital transformation efforts require a company to operate its business effectively while simultaneously navigating people, process and technology changes. The delicate balance of execution and evolution requires a company to lean on its strategic vendors for assistance.

Companies like SAP are at the core of businesses operations for a diverse range of companies such as Bosch, Nestle and Royal Dutch Shell. To learn more about how various industries are approaching digital transformation, I attended SAP's SAPPHIRE and ASUG conference. The conference provides ample opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation initiatives with various business leaders and SAP executives. There were at least seven key takeaways that every business leader should consider as they build transformation strategies.

Need some guidance in making business decisions? Then you might want to think about employing a business intelligence tool, or BI tool. Business intelligence tools are all about helping you understand trends and deriving insights from your data so that you can make tactical and strategic business decisions. Now, I know what some of you startups and smaller-size businesses are thinking… “These tools are way too advanced and complex for my company. It’s no use”. Well you couldn’t be more wrong. Nowadays BI tools can help businesses of all shapes and sizes make sense of complex, big data and drive profits!

The education game market continues to grow rapidly, and mobile learning games are a dominant force in this market. Newzoo, an industry analyst that provides insight for the generic games market, predicts the overall mobile game market across all game types will grow 40 percent between now and 2020. That’s a significant growth increase.

In-App & Web Notifications are increasingly being used by digital-first businesses as a means for boosting conversions or simply conveying an important message to their visitors (while they are active in-app or on the website). According to Localytics, In-App Messaging in particular is capable of boosting engagement by 3x! So to what can we attribute the success of in-app and web notifications? Easy. That would be their exceptional ability to deliver the right content to the right audience at the right time.

In this article we will define 10 tools that offer in-app & web notifications.

Ozzie Goldschmied, CTO at Ceridian discusses best practices for improving user experience across all employee and business touchpoints. He shares solutions for managing complex workforce scheduling and pay requirements which are key challenges for just about any organization today. Ozzie leads the design and development of Dayforce HCM, the award-winning single application for human capital management and is focused on best practices, excellence, and innovation in product delivery.

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